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Oct 27 2025

whatacartouchebag:

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they’ve gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here’s what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It’ll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you’re going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that’s peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we’re just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.

Oct 27 2025

villainessbian:

inbabylontheywept:

I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn’t really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be

a). I needed to watch that car and

b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.

It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn’t really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It’d been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I’d basically written it off as nonsense.

Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should’ve just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.

So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn’t empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I’d probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.

She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn’t warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn’t know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?

And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:

“Because it was foretold.”

And I can’t tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there’s not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.

I’m still kind of digesting this myself, actually.

God is real but only to tell you to look at that dumbass fail a basic parking manoeuvre

Oct 27 2025

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Oh

okay, since everyone is asking for context:

  • a while back kian was working on a server that added guns to minecraft (a thing that various servers have done previously)
  • mojang sent. i think a cease & desist? or just a threat? telling them to immediately stop and that theyre not allowed to because guns arent allowed under the eula (a eula that had been changed WITHOUT NOTIFYING ANYONE, which is illegal in the EU)
  • mojang was actually lying and making shit the frick up because nothing explicitly stated guns weren’t allowed
  • kian set up a fundraiser for a lawsuit (and it reached ~147
  • k usd within a few days)
  • a while back again x2 salc1 did an experiment to see what would happen if you didnt migrate your mojang account. turns out, theyre deleted and you have to Rebuy The Game if you didnt migrate you account
  • a lot of people lost their 8-10+ year old accounts BECAUSE of this
  • turns out mojang has changed the eula a BUNCH without notifying anyone! and hasn’t given anyone the option to agree or disagree with the new eula guidelines which is illegal! (they changed them 47 times, majority without notifying anyone. a few were notified, but majority weren’t)
  • this can be taken as causing damaged to people with QUANTIFIABLE LOSSES because of people losing PAID ACCOUNTS which can be used to fight a legal case, among other things

here’s kian’s videos on the entire thing, i’m sure i missed some details

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hi if YOU have LOST YOUR ACCOUNT then FILL OUT THE FORM IN THE DESCRIPTION OF KIANS SECOND VIDEO!!!!!!!! IT WILL HELP THEM PLENTY WITH THE LAWSUIT!!!

Oct 27 2025

akamuffintop:

persepinesascent:

What fuckin timeline are we living in

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(gift link)

My city is teaming with ICE. I don’t want to write too much about it online so I’m asking you to trust me.

In my city, the ICE agents are always in plainclothes-sunglasses and hoodies up. They arrive in unmarked cars and always as a surprise attack. It’s eerie and unsettling. Here is an example of the cars used by ICE agents on Friday. These cars were verified by community advocates.

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If you are in Massachusetts and think you see ICE in your neighborhood, contact LUCE. They will send out US Citizens out into the community to verify reports. We all have to help each other because shit is dark.

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